Show-card.



PATBNTED JUNE 6, 1905.

Mi JACKSON.

SHOW GARD.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.,18, 1904 an article or articles of manufacture, so thatk UNITED; STA-TES `Patented June 6, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

eHow-CARD..

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,912, dated June 6, 1905.

Appuason nea August 18.1904. serial No. 221,301.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, MILTON JACKSON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Show-Cards, of which the v following isa specification.

ably secured-,to itthe articles to be displayed, 2o so that the latter can, if desired, be sold directrom the card, andthe card will usually be designed for exhibiting dilerent styles of a selection can be-made from the sarnples'exhibited.V .Thus Athe card shown Ain the drawingsisintended for exhibiting locks, and four y diierent styles of lock, each -with its appropriate keys, are illustrated.-

The essential-feature .of my invention consists in providing the face of the card with pictorialrepresentations of the articles-designed to befexhibited, these representations" being so disposed in'respect to the suspending or securingdevices for said 'articles that v when the articles are inf place upon the card the pictorial representations willi be either 'wholly or to a large extent coveredand hidden thereby, but will be exposed when the articles are removed. Two of these-'pictorial representations are shown at a: at the righthand end vof the card illustrated in the drawings, the lock and its appropriate' keys being lifted in order to expose the representations beneath. By this means the use of the card is strictly limited to the display of the specilic articles for which it `was originally designed. Hence it can be made attractive in various ways, slnce 1t` ]ust1fes an expensewhich would not be warranted in preparing a show-card which lacked the distinctive quality above mentioned.I i

Various meansof securing being such by Ipreference that they can. be readily removed andlreplaced. Thus the/device for suspending the-,locks consists of a ring or staple 1, bearing against a Washer 2 .on the face of the card and having a split stem whose end'scanbe turned down over a or suspending@ the articles from the cardmay beadopted within the scope of my invention, the devices washer 3`at the back' of the' card, while the y y device for suspending the keysconsists of an ordinary garment-hook 4, secured to the card by adouble-pointed tack orstaple 5, this hook :receiving a ring 6,from .which thefkeysare suspended. Any of the locks can therefore be readily unlocked and removed from the' supporting ringor staple, and .another lock of the same character canv be readilyNappIijed in place vof that removed, and the keys can be removed by simply lifting the ring 6 from the hook 4.

- It will be noted that the. devices employed for attaching the locks and keys to the-card are not injured by the withdrawal ofsaid locks or keys from the card, soy that the llatf ter can be used indefinitely.

. p Havingl thus described 'my invention, I claim and desire to secure Letters Patent-f; 1. A show-card having means for detachably securing thereto' ythe articles to be dis'- played, and having, vin proper relation to suchV securing, means, pictorial representations of the articles intended to be displayed, substan tially as'specilied. 1'

^ 2. A show-card having ineans for detachably securing thereto the articles (to be displayed, and liaving, in proper relation to such securing means, pictorial` representations of the articles intended to be displayed', said rep-v resentations varying in character so as to permit of a corresponding varlatlon 1n the'charm Temi@ acter of the articles displayeni, Substantially' In testimony Wheree'fll have Signed my name as specified. to this epecication in the presence el? two sub- 3.- A show-card having detaehably secured seribing Witnesses.,

thereto a number of the articles to be dis- MLTUN JACKSN,

played., and having beneath each of "said arl/Vifcnesses:

v ticles a pictorial representation of the same., A., B, MAINE.,

substantially as speeiied. BAILEY. 

